Tenure and Promotion

You are already well aware of the tremendous importance of tenure and promotion decisions.
It's only the future of your department hanging in the balance—no pressure!

Below are links to official T&P guidelines and procedures. And we have a few tips
you won't find in the rulebooks:

Begin preparing tenure track faculty for the tenure application process as soon as
they arrive on campus. Decisions about the tenure track faculty member's work load
should be made with the eventual tenure application in mind. You and other senior
faculty should be nurturing the new faculty and guiding them toward tenure from day
one. It's way too late to get worried at the end of year five.

Be proactive about collecting the external review letters for each applicant. Your
departmental T&P guidelines specify who is responsible for selecting the external
reviewers and requesting the letters. Stay on top of this. Nothing creates more havoc
with the review committees than not having a sufficient number of external letters.
Tip: The minimum is four.